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Features, Interviews, Loyalists, People, The War Years (1775-1783) December 12, 2020 December 12, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Kevin A. Conn on the Remarkable Career of Loyalist Soldier and Spy James Moody

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On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews AP History teacher and JAR contributor Kevin A. Conn on the remarkable career of New Jersey Loyalist…

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Espionage and Cryptography, Loyalists, People, Prisoners of War, The War Years (1775-1783) November 24, 2020 November 22, 2020

Contingencies, Capture, and Spectacular Getaway: the Imprisonment and Escape of James Moody

by Kevin A. Conn

One of the most famous or notorious of Tory partisans in the American Revolution was the New Jersey soldier and spy James Moody. Moody…

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